Strategic Partners

These companies are among those we work with on a regular basis. They are our valued partners, and enable us to continue to bring valuable information to our clients. To check out their Web sites and offerings, click on their company names.

Virtual Incubator
Start-Up Services Team
To speed and professionalize your business's launch, you can call upon our talented team of outside service providers.

These are the same service providers that have helped us to grow the Virtual Incubator Program into the #1 source in the U.S. for business start-up coaching for people 50 and beyond.

Each member of the Startup Team is not only a technical expert, but also a successful small business owner himself, averaging more than eight years of business ownership.

Your Virtual Incubator Coach will coordinate your work with each service provider.

Examine the Virtual Incubator Start-Up Services Package
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John Wondrasek, Graphic & Website Design

John has established a reputation for imaginative logo and website design, promptly provided. For our VI clients, he has built a customized data entry area on the Wondrasek.com website to permit each client to build a design profile for their logo and website, simply by answering a series of questions and submitting them online.

John is also the CEO of Web Editor +, an innovative web-based subscription site that permits our VI clients to change their website content and post it up to their website by entering plain-English text, just as one does when using a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word.
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Guy Lum, Computer Systems Specialist

Guy is a systems/network integration and PC hardware/operating system specialist. His background includes 11 years of experience in the PC industry as a consultant, 11 years in the electronics field as a design engineer, and 5 years as a computer instructor.

Guy's firm is Productive Computers, Inc. specializing in the PC needs of companies with 50 users or less at a reasonable hourly rate. He can help in strategic planning, purchasing, implementation, repair, or disaster recovery.
The following is a list of some of the projects Guy's company typically works on:

• Discuss computer needs from a business workflow perspective.
  
• Planning for company growth and disaster recovery.
  
• Document your existing PC/network software/hardware inventory.
  
• Research equipment needs, supply vendor lists, order and expedite parts.
  
• Integrate PCs into peer-to-peer or server based networks (we have worked on all forms of Windows networks, Novell Netware, and Lantastic).
  
• Setup Internet access with anti-virus and firewall security.
  
• Setup new PCs, replace broken hardware, and clean up PCs in adverse environments.
  
• Transfer information from a PC on “its last leg” to another hard drive or PC.
  
• Setup tape or disk backup systems with recommended rotation schemes.
  
• Onsite computer training.

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Kristin Walsh, Copywriter

Kristin helps businesses and non-profit organizations increase visibility and revenue through inventive marketing communications solutions.

Her past experience includes a stint as director of marketing for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, a $5 million fine-arts organization.

Kristin is the wordsmith of the Go Smart Center team. She takes your description of your company and its products or services and weaves it into a persuasive selling presentation that make the readers of your selling brochure immediately want to know more about how you can help them.

Kristin will assist you in the Virtual Incubator Program with the following activities:
• Refinement of your selling slogan or tagline.
• Editing of your selling brochure copy.
Creative input on your website content.

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